Lorraine Jeanette Day M.D. (July 24, 1937 – ) is a practitioner of alternative medicine who claims to have discovered the cause and cure of cancer, as a result of God showing her how to recover from her own cancer with a 10 step plan. According to her theory, all cancers are due to weakness of the immune system which must be cured by diet. "All diseases are caused by a combination of three factors: malnutrition, dehydration, and stress."
A former surgeon, she is now completely opposed to mainstream medicine, claiming that "the entire foundation of conventional medicine is based on error," that standard cancer treatment has never cured anyone, and that nobody should undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer or use vaccination for infectious disease.
She also rejects the common medical theories regarding the causes and cures of ADHD, SARS, anthrax, smallpox, bird flu, and vision problems. Her theory implicates many common foods as harmful, such as "sugar is as addictive as cocaine" and "paralyzes the immune system for four hours" and "the more milk you drink, the more osteoporotic you become." She claims that drugs never cure disease and maintains a website where she markets books, videotape, and alternative medicines such as Barley Green.
In 2004, she began marketing her "Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore" videotape with an infomercial which was declared to be "misleading" by the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in December 2004.[1][2]
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Day graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in 1969 and trained in orthopedic surgery at two San Francisco hospitals. She became an associate professor and vice chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital.[3] During the mid-1980s, she received considerable media attention related to the risk of acquiring AIDS through exposure to the blood of AIDS patients during trauma surgery, publishing a book, AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You, wherein she states that in 1989 she retired from surgery due to the excessive risk of acquiring AIDS.[4]
Day's website, books, and videos describe the experience with cancer which led to her conclusions regarding disease. In 1992 she noticed a small lump in her breast, but did not seek medical care for another year. The pathology report from her excisional biopsy on October 26, 1993, posted on her website, reports a 1.7 centimeter tumor containing an infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma extending to the margins of the biopsy specimen. Her medical report from November 2, 1993 advised removal of a wider chest area as well as the lymph nodes in her armpit, followed by radiation treatment. Day underwent wide excision, but refused drugs, chemotherapy, and radiation.[5] She began eating a strict vegan diet, eliminated all refined sugar and processed foods, and began drinking large amounts of vegetable juice. When her tumor returned nine months later, she realized that "diet was not enough" and tried forty different "alternative methods . . . one after the other".
She also believes that Jews are trying to take over the world, and that the Holocaust is a hoax used for the stated purpose "to destroy all nations, control the entire world, slaughter most of the population of the earth, and reduce the rest to slaves." [6]
Dr Day developed and promotes the “Ten Steps to Fight Cancer”.
Day is married to former California congressman William Dannemeyer.[8]
Day's website[3] advertises several health products whereas her other website[9] states "this web site has no advertisers and does not solicit donations, two situations that tend to compromise any Truth-teller".